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Last Updated:July 23, 2025, 21:53 is Following their arrest, the couple was initially held at Pul-e-Charkhi prison. The couple was arrested in early February from their home in Bamiyan province (Pexels/Representative Image) The fate of an elderly couple imprisoned in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime remains uncertain. Peter Reynolds, 80, and his wife Barbie, 76,…
Tehran / Kabul31 minutes ago Copy link After the war with Israel, Iran started to exclude Afghan citizens rapidly. More than 1.4 million Afghans have been forcibly evacuated in Iran since January. According to the United Nations (UN) refugee agency, around 20,000 Afghan refugees are being forcibly sent back to the border of Iran and…
Last Updated:June 07, 2025, 20:41 is If current trends continue, Kabul’s aquifers could be completely depleted by 2030, threatening the lives of its seven million residents. Kabul Faces Catastrophic Water Crisis, Could Run Completely Dry By 2030. (File) Water levels in Kabul’s underground aquifers have dropped by up to 30 meters in the last decade…
A significant development in India and Afghanistan is moving closer in terms of cooperation, particularly in the water sector, posing a serious challenge to Pakistan. India had earlier scrapped the Indus Waters Treaty after the Pahalgam terror attack, triggering panic in Pakistan. Now, Afghanistan is preparing to build dams on the Kabul and Kunar rivers,…
Washington: Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump’s order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday. The group includes unaccompanied minors awaiting…
The sight of Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri chatting with his Talibani counterpart, the Acting Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, in Dubai, could not but have raised eyebrows in some capitals—Pakistan, particularly. The visit was followed by a rather delayed statement by Delhi on January 8, “condemning” Pakistan’s “Christmas bombing” against Kabul using fighter aircraft….
Kabul: Units of counter-narcotics police have foiled attempts to smuggle some 1,000 kg of illicit drugs and objects used in manufacturing heroin in western Afghanistan’s Nimroz province, Provincial Director for Counter-Narcotics Police Abdul Wasi Raihan said Saturday. Without providing more details, the official admitted that no one had been arrested. In similar operations, police apprehended…
Afghanistan veteran Hashmatullah Shahidi and Zimbabwe rookie Brian Bennett starred as the first Test was drawn after a rain-shortened final day in Bulawayo on Monday. Shahidi claimed an Afghan record 246 runs at the end of a marathon innings while spinner Bennett took five wickets. Zimbabwe made 586 and 142-4 to lead Afghanistan by…
Last Updated:December 30, 2024, 2:03 pm IST In a letter published on X Sunday night, the Economy Ministry warned that failure to comply with the latest order would lead to NGOs losing their license to operate in Afghanistan. Afghanistan women (AP Image) The Taliban says it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in…
Peshawar: A Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and seven others wounded in cross-border exchanges of fire with Afghanistan’s forces, a security source said Saturday, while hundreds of Afghans protested against the deadly air strikes that sparked the clashes. Sporadic fighting, including with heavy weaponry, erupted overnight between border forces on the frontier between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…